Thursday, April 16, 2015

Global War Today Looms Like Never Before Since WW II

Global War Today Looms Like Never Before Since WW II

by Stephen Lendman

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned "(w)e have all come to the edge today where it is again necessary, just like after the second world war, to make a fatal choice between cooperation (or) conflicts."

US hegemonic ambitions make peace impossible. Lunatics run the Washington asylum. Their lust for war is insatiable.

They wage one after another. They accuse other nations for their high crimes.

Gunslinging NATO head US General Philip Breedlove risks launching WW III all by himself.

"According to our information, arms are already being delivered," he said. Fighting will continue. Military and civilian casualties will mount. Nothing will change. Things will get worse, not better.

"The result will be the same as today. (T)his is is an inevitability, since the vast majority of the personnel of Ukraine's armed forces, in my opinion, has no desire to participate in a fratricidal war, far away from their own homes, while the Donbas militia have the great motivation of protecting their families," Putin said.

"Despite the assurances of the American side that there are no anti-Russian intentions in the global missile defense system, it becomes obvious that continuing the implementation of US and NATO missile defense plans creates a real threat to Russian strategic nuclear forces," he said.

"I think that's an inescapable conclusion," he stresses. NATO's only post-Cold War purpose is containing Russia - including confronting it militarily.

Ukraine is a convenient pretext. Plans to marginalize, contain, weaken and isolate Russia were prepared years ago. Rozoff expects military conflict to follow - potential global war by any standard if launched.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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